The "Smart" Medicine cabinet looks very interesting. Do you have any more details?

What is the selling point for curved TV's? Does the curve make the image look better?

The three in one classic gaming console looks interesting, but actually finding games that work for it and are not way over priced will be very hard. It would be nice if they would reissue some of them.

Hah! I remember suggesting something like this in comments to one of the first Ars stories on this gun and getting heavily downvoted for some reason . Shifting the center of gravity down can only improve stability, which is still important even with computer-assisted triggering.

On the subject of NAS. I assume the reason laptop HDDs aren't used even though it would make them considerably smaller, is that the biggest drive available is a 2 TB? Also on that first concept car. Main thing I'd be worried about is crash worthiness.

The robot guitar tuner looks a nice idea, though I wonder whether it would change the balance of the guitar.

The FLIR camera sled might be entirely awesome if the pricing is at all reasonable; I own a FLIR i7, it is quite probably the least justifiable of my possessions. FLIR, because they've got the patents on the sensors and because the sensors are currently export-controlled items so aren't yet manufactured in Chinese fabs, have been historically pretty bad at regarding trivial software features as things worth charging $500 extra for.

For example, you can't record video on the i7, and the low-end of the higher-resolution TS cameras don't even have take-a-photo functionality ... that was annoying enough that I returned the TS and got a close-out i7 instead.

On the subject of NAS. I assume the reason laptop HDDs aren't used even though it would make them considerably smaller, is that the biggest drive available is a 2 TB? Also on that first concept car. Main thing I'd be worried about is crash worthiness.

Even the 2TB drive isn't very available, and is 5400rpm which is now considered quite slow. I have the impression that 2.5" drives which their manufacturers are happy to have used in NAS applications are still sold at a ludicrous premium.

(for generic 2.5" drives there's less of a premium; £56.12 for a Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm 2.5" drive, £45.11 for a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm 3.5" drive ... but you really don't want to fill a NAS with 1TB drives when 3TB drives are £79.56)

The robot guitar tuner looks a nice idea, though I wonder whether it would change the balance of the guitar.

I think Gibson has had these out for at least a year. I played with one at Guitar Center before Thanksgiving. It seems pretty nifty and didn't change, in any appreciable way, how I held the guitar. The only downside I can think of is how it would affect first-time players with a bit of cash to plunk down for one of these, never learning to tune by ear. Admittedly, it's something I still struggle with. But it's still pretty damn cool.

Man, that Super Retro Trio 3 looks very cool! Personally i've enjoyed most of my favorite "classics" on my computer using an emulator but I have some less tech savvy friends who would love this kind of machine.

I hope you guys complaining about drive size in a NAS are using RAID6 or some sort of mirroring... the rebuild times after a drive failure for these huge drives are absurd in my experience. I've been fortunate not to lose a second while rebuilding a RAID5 setup.

Neither gearheads nor normals hold that territory. 'Tis a different breed of mankind which seeks out the frozen wilderlands, with its rugged individualist landscape and the massive federal subsidies to keep their tax rate artificially low.

Neither gearheads nor normals hold that territory. 'Tis a different breed of mankind which seeks out the frozen wilderlands, with its rugged individualist landscape and the massive federal subsidies to keep their tax rate artificially low.

What is the selling point for curved TV's? Does the curve make the image look better?

They're supposed to give a more immersive experience. I've heard they just skew geometric shapes on the tv. To me, it's just another gimmick to sell tvs. I can't imagine a small, curved tv creating an immersive experience like a large, curved movie theater screen creates.

Any chance of getting a "Hands on with..." article about the FLIR One? Because I'd love to know everything there is to know about it (resolution, framerate, more shots of pictures of stuff taken with it, etc.).